After a long-expected Toronto Maple Leafs head coach firing Tuesday morning that totally overshadowed the golden glow from Team Canada's victory at the Air Canada Centre Monday, the next question to be answered by team brass is who will be the next future-coach-to-be-fired?
Team president Brendan Shanahan and GM Dave Nonis dropped the axe on Randy Carlyle early Tuesday morning, and have placed assistant's Peter Horachek and Steve Spott into the interim position of guiding this team for now.

If you're wondering how Nail Yakupov has escaped a short trip to Oklahoma City to see what life is like on the farm team, it's because the Edmonton Oilers are going to force him to learn how to play when he doesn't have the puck.

It's quite all right to be angry with the National Hockey League, and it's OK, too, to feel just a little less warm-and-fuzzy toward your on-ice heroes, since neither party covered itself with glory in the lockout.